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“Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.”
Source : Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”
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“Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.”
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“When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.”
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“The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.”
Source : Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket
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“I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.”
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“Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.”
Source : "Lady Chatterly's Trial (The Old Bailey, 20 October - 2 November 1960)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 409, 1967.
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“Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.”
Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.57, Open Road Media
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“When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.”